Fortunately, he met Qi Taiyu in Naqu, he had a relationship to complete the customs clearance procedures between India and Tibet, and in order to verify the rare opportunity to make a fortune in Shatush, Qi Taiyu was out of the way.

Tang Ning said that he now has no silver taels, only two big burdens of Shatush raw materials, worth 400 taels of silver, and he is reluctant to sell, the value cannot be reflected before it is made into Shatoosh, and the value will increase by 10 times after it is completed, and it will increase by 10 times after it is sold to Europe, this 40,000 taels of huge value, who wants to sell it early? So, they agreed that Qi Taiyu would first put on the entanglement along the way, and the two would discuss the deal after Tang Ning made a move in Kashmir, India.

400 taels, you can buy two or three very good sets of courtyard houses in the capital!

Qi Taiyu was clever and asked, "How many antelopes have you slaughtered?" ”

Tang Ning said indifferently: "90 heads." ”

Qi Taiyu almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood: "Did it alone? ”

Tang Ning replied lightly with a "hmm".

Qi Taiyu: "How is it possible? How? ”

Tang Ning: "Well, my unique method, I don't have such a high productivity, three hundred and sixty lines, what am I doing with this business map?" ”

Qi Taiyu didn't believe that these two sheepskin bags contained 90 Tibetan antelopes of cashmere, and asked to see them.

Tang Ning didn't hide it either, and untied a corner of the burden. It turns out that these cashmeres have been dried and compressed, and they have been flattened so much that you can imagine what vacuum packaging looks like. Tibetan antelopes are not always encountered, so he did his best.

Seeing the appearance of cashmere being compressed, Qi Taiyu believed in the "unique method" mentioned by Tang Ning, at least he had never seen such a dense wool ball.

After gaining Qi Taiyu's initial trust, the two went to Lhasa with two retinues. Qi Taiyu's relative who was on an errand under the minister stationed in Tibet was in Lhasa.

Qi Taiyu got a horse for Tang Ning, and the speed went up this time.

A group of four people spent four days traveling from Naqu to Lhasa. At this time, Lhasa is only a small city of 20,000 people, but, after all, it is the border between India and China, and finally met the Indian merchants who came to collect antelopes, these Kashmiri fur merchants can only speak Tibetan, fortunately Qi Taiyu can speak a little Tibetan, he asked the price given by the Indians, the worst price is 40 taels, the best price is 70 taels, in short, there is still a gap from the 400 taels that Tang Ning said, but this is also a lot of money, because 70 taels can also be bought in Qi Taiyu's hometown of Pingyao, Shanxi.

Tang Ning smiled and said, "It's only 400 taels to be shipped to Kashmir, let's go, man!" ”

Tang Ning learned from Qi Taiyu's relative Qi Hui that Kashmir was actually a dependency of ** not long ago, and in 1829, when the British ** team invaded the place, the then king of Ladakh asked the Qing court for help, but the Qing court ignored it and lost contact with the place later. Tang Ning guessed that it was estimated that the minister in Tibet had seen the advanced firearms of the British army and did not dare to pay attention to the king of Ladakh.

By the time of the First Opium War, the Samba army in the Ladakh region of Kashmir took the opportunity to attack Ali, and the Qing court was unable to look westward, but ordered the Tibetan army to counterattack and defeated the Samba army. Qi Hui proudly introduced the battle of Samba, but he couldn't hide the fact that he had lost the control of Ladakh, Tang Ning unceremoniously asked why he didn't take Ladakh back, Qi Hui was not clear, and he was very dissatisfied with Tang Ning's questioning, if it weren't for the sake of his relatives, he would have issued an eviction order earlier. Most of the officials of the corrupt Qing court are of this virtue. Tang Ning didn't take it to heart, he didn't plan to mix in the land controlled by the Qing Dynasty at all, whether you are happy or unhappy. It's okay to get me customs clearance paperwork, but if you don't give it to me, you will cross the border without permission, and it will anger the uncle and let you taste the taste of particle beam guns.

In this barren land, the so-called war is only a few thousand people, (don't forget that Lhasa has a population of more than 20,000), a thousand bullets from the particle beam gun, and after having the good thing of molecular separator, it can be purified from the iron tool to purify the bullets for particle beams, and thousands of troops are not afraid of Tangning, as long as they occupy a good position, or a sneak attack, or a night battle, they can kill the entire Tibetan army. The so-called one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open, which refers to the wonderful place of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Fortunately, Qi Taiyu was eloquent and eager to make a fortune, and persuaded his relatives with great painstaking efforts, and finally got the customs clearance documents. The group of four took a small amount of Chinese leather goods and headed for Kashmir.

India is not a happy land, the religious atmosphere is as strong as **, and meaningless superstitious activities have become the main activity of their existence. In this era, the amount of land is not the most important factor to measure the size of the colony, but the human resources are the factor of discourse, so India under British rule is the largest and most important colony, and the status of the Indian governor is much higher than that of Canada, Australia and other places. Coming to this country with a large population second only to China, Tang Ning's heart once again swelled with the feeling of being surrounded by a sea of ignorance.

In addition to superstition, the British colonial rule was not friendly, they used India as a raw material base, and the crops grown in India were first and foremost exported to the British mainland, so the internal market of the entire British India was artificially limited, and the Indians lived a life of scarcity.

It was also an era of brutal exploitation of the workers in the early stages of capitalism, and it was not nonsense for Marx to conclude that "capitalism must perish" through his observations, because if you go to the factories and look at the workers who work 15 hours a day without stopping, you may also come to the preliminary conclusion that the class contradictions are irreconcilable.

If the British workers were still suffering so much, what should the colonized Indians do?

This is still an era of gold rush, not only the famous California has a gold rush, South Africa, Australia and other British colonies, as long as the news of gold mines is found, all workers will find a way to make a profit, as long as they work to earn money on the road, they will set off, because, the same danger, hard, gold rush at least there is hope.

Tang Ning just sighed that it was not his turn to worry about these major human events, he was just a merchant from ** who had not yet obtained his identity. He came into the world alone, without friends. Qi Taiyu was not a friend, and from Qi Taiyu's fanatical eyes and the way he and Qi Hui looked at each other, Tang Ning deduced that this Jin merchant might want to do it himself after learning to be Shatush. He is still a lonely traveler to the world of ignorance.

To be honest, their line of work is not easy, Qi Taiyu does not know much Tibetan, and it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack to find a craftsman who does Shatush with this communication ability, and they can't even figure out where to sell it, and the two of them wander around the largest bazaar in Kashmir, a little dazed.

They had followed an Indian trader to the market town, but the cunning Kashmiri would not tell them where there were any craftsmen who made shatush, and he wanted Tangning to sell the Tibetan antelope to himself.

There is no good price without competition, and Downing is still reluctant to sell. He was waiting, and when he met the British, he would be able to get enough information with his excellent communication skills. Therefore, they often scanned the traces of the British with their eyes in the bazaar.

Although the merchant is mercenary, Qi Taiyu seems to be quite calm, and has been providing food and lodging to the penniless Tangning brother, betting that this stranger will eventually discover Shatush's secret.

Three days passed, the British did not find it, the craftsmen did not find it, Downing began to change his strategy, he lied that he was here to buy Shahtoosh, ha, this trick is very clever, on the same day they found a shop selling Shahtoosh with the help of Kashmiri traders, this small shop only has more than a dozen shawls, and it is set aside at will as if they don't want money. Legend has it that these shawls can be worn through rings, and Downing doesn't have a ring, but when he compares it, it looks like the real thing.

Qi Taiyu negotiated the price with the store for a long time, and finally got the price of 70 pounds for a Shathush shawl, which is about 260 taels of silver, and now, he finally believed. A Shatush is a mansion.

Tibetan antelope cashmere is extremely small and difficult to process, it is estimated that in another hundred years, this kind of thing can only be handicrafts, Tang Ning stared at the finished product of Shatoosh for a long time, and almost gave up his plan to imitate Shatoosh. （http：／／.）。

Back at the inn, Qi Taiyu seemed a little excited, and kept imagining a bright future after learning to be Shatush, and saw that Tang Ning was a little unhappy, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Tang Ning: "I took a closer look at the shatoosh they made, it is very difficult to process, I don't really want to get it myself, just sell it, if you are interested, continue to stay here and find a way." ”

Qi Taiyu hurriedly said: "Don't, this is a good business with a lot of profits, how can you give up lightly!" ”

Tang Ning smiled: "The business is good, but it's not good, what I have in my head is the knowledge of factory production, it's much better than this business, I can go to Shanghai to develop, maybe we will meet again, it's not easy to make friends, we are quite fateful." ”

Qi Taiyu saw that he had made up his mind, so he had to say: "That's a pity, I don't have much silver with me, and I can't buy much of your cashmere if I want to, alas!" ”

Along the way, Tang Ning knew something about this person's character, he was more clever, more daring, and he might be able to get things done, so he said: "It's better to do this, I will hand over half of the cashmere to you, which is considered a share, and after you learn to make Shatush, I want half of the profits of this Shatoosh, and you don't have to give cash now." ”

Qi Taiyu is overjoyed, this friend is too worthwhile, this trust is not easy, just this half of the goods, now it is worth more than 200 taels of silver, and all the entanglements that have come out these days have earned more than that.

So, the two signed a simple paperwork with fingerprints, and Tang Ning signed his pseudonym in this world: Tang Ning? Windsor.